Maruja (given name)

Maruja is a Spanish given name, a diminutive form of the baptismal name María.

People with the name

 * Maruja Bustamante (born 1978), Argentine actress and playwright
 * Maruja Callaved (1928–2018), Spanish television director
 * Maruja Carrasco (1944–2018), Spanish botanist and academic
 * Maruja Fuentes (1978–2010), Puerto Rican architect and designer
 * Maruja Grifell (1907–1968), Mexican actress
 * Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), Spanish painter
 * Maruja Montes (1930–1993), Brazilian-Argentine actress and vedette
 * Maruja Pachón Castro (born 1948), Colombian kidnapping victim and Minister for Education
 * Maruja Pibernat (fl. 1934–2004), Spanish-Argentine film and radio actress
 * Maruja Torres (born 1943), Spanish writer and journalist
 * Maruja Troncoso Ortega (born 1937), Spanish singer and professor

Fictional characters

 * Maruja, a Filipino comic book character created by Mars Ravelo
 * Tola y Maruja, a Colombian cross-dressing comedy duo